1. Select the essential oil you want to use for this meditation. Take off the lid and place several drops onto a folded tissue. Wave tissue gently under nostrils ensuring both sides of the nose take in the oil vibrations. Don’t let the oil touch the skin.

2. Focus on breathing in vapors with each breath, imagining that it travels up the nasal passages, and circulates round and through the brain. With each breath the journey continues through the nervous system. Visualize it flowing into the organs and glands of the body, through all the muscles, skeleton and every cell in your body. Let it flow through the skin, hair, face, feet and hands.

3. Take the energy you are breathing in, let it surround your physical body, and fill all of the invisible energy fields that you know make up the aura. Continue until you think or can imagine that your energy fields are almost ‘buzzing’ with the energy. Remove the tissue from under the nose, and just relax, allowing the process to settle.

4. If you think that you need another oil, you can repeat this process. Generally you won’t need more than two oils.